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  • Typhoon, Sympathetic Magic, 2021 on Roll Call Records.

    Typhoon, Sympathetic Magic, 2021 on Roll Call Records.

    Typhoon, Sympathetic Magic, 2021 on Roll Call Records. Opaque Pink Vinyl edition of Typhoon’s latest – one of my favorite 2021 albums. Who could resist an album that opens with a song titled Sina Qua Nonentity?

  • Miles Davis & Quincy Jones, Live at Montreux, 1993 on Warner Bros.

    Miles Davis & Quincy Jones, Live at Montreux, 1993 on Warner Bros.

    Miles Davis & Quincy Jones, Live at Montreux, 1993 on Warner Bros. My copy is part of the Vinyl Me, Please Anthology: The Story of Quincy Jones. Recorded in 1991 at the Montreux Jazz Festival which Quincy Jones co-produced in the early 90s. Montreux is in the État De Vaud on Lake Geneva – never…

  • Albert Collins, Robert Cray, Johnny Copeland: Showdown!, 1986 on Alligator Records.

    Albert Collins, Robert Cray, Johnny Copeland: Showdown!, 1986 on Alligator Records.

    Albert Collins, Robert Cray, Johnny Copeland: Showdown!, 1986 on Alligator Records. One of Alligator Records’ most successful releases.

  • Fiddle Fever, Fiddle Fever, 1981 on Flying Fish.

    Fiddle Fever, Fiddle Fever, 1981 on Flying Fish.

    Fiddle Fever, Fiddle Fever, 1981 on Flying Fish. Is Fiddle Fever transmissable? That’s an awful lot of fiddles. They put out two LPs plus a Best Of CD

  • Raydio, Raydio, 1978 on Arista.

    Raydio, Raydio, 1978 on Arista.

    Raydio, Raydio, 1978 on Arista. Self-titled debut for the band fronted by Ray Parker Jr. of “Ghostbusters” fame (I ain’t afraid of no ghost!) You can find “Is this a love thing” on YouTube- I’d have gone with the parenthetical subtitle “(or is this just a sex thing)” but maybe too risqué in 1978? Some…

  • Leo Kottke, Mudlark, 1971 on Capitol Records.

    Leo Kottke, Mudlark, 1971 on Capitol Records.

    Leo Kottke, Mudlark, 1971 on Capitol Records. Kottke’s first LP on Capitol, fourth full length

  • Oscar Peterson Trio, Put On A Happy Face, 1966 on Verve.

    Oscar Peterson Trio, Put On A Happy Face, 1966 on Verve.

    Oscar Peterson Trio, Put On A Happy Face, 1966 on Verve. My favorite incarnation with Ed Thigpen and Ray Brown – one of four LPs of music recorded at the London House in Chicago in 1961.

  • Frank Sinatra, Come Fly With Me, 1958 on Capitol.

    Frank Sinatra, Come Fly With Me, 1958 on Capitol.

    Frank Sinatra, Come Fly With Me, 1958 on Capitol. My copy is an early 70s reissue – Sinatra’s first collaboration with Billy May (arranger and conductor). A little 50s era product placement for TWA?

  • McCartney III Imagined, 2021 on Capitol.

    McCartney III Imagined, 2021 on Capitol.

    McCartney III Imagined, 2021 on Capitol. Compilation reimagining McCartney III, with contributions from St. Vincent, Beck, Phoebe Bridgers, Anderson .Paak, Damon Albarn. Love these kinds of compilations, and thank god this time it isn’t a memorial tribute.

  • Nikki Lane, All Or Nothin’, 2014 on New West.

    Nikki Lane, All Or Nothin’, 2014 on New West.

    Nikki Lane, All Or Nothin’, 2014 on New West. Lane’s second full length, followup to 2011’s Walk Of Shame. Produced by Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys who also gets cowriting credit on five songs and duets on “Love’s On Fire”

  • Doves, Some Cities, 2005 on Heavenly / EMI.

    Doves, Some Cities, 2005 on Heavenly / EMI.

    Doves, Some Cities, 2005 on Heavenly / EMI. My copy is a 2020 vinyl pressing. “In some cities there’s too much history coming down” Great LP co-produced by Doves and Ben Hiller.

  • Sigur Rós, Ágætis Byrjun, 1999 on Smekkleysa.

    Sigur Rós, Ágætis Byrjun, 1999 on Smekkleysa.

    Sigur Rós, Ágætis Byrjun,  1999 on Smekkleysa. Originally released in Iceland in 1999, in Europe in 2000, and in the US in 2001. My copy is the Vinyl Me, Please reissue 2022. Title translates to “A Good Beginning” – it was their breakthrough second album. Maybe my favorite “post rock” album

  • The Robert Cray Band, False Accusations, 1985 on Hightone Records.

    The Robert Cray Band, False Accusations, 1985 on Hightone Records.

    The Robert Cray Band, False Accusations, 1985 on Hightone Records. Third studio LP and the second on Hightone (after Bad Influence) – before signing to Mercury.

  • Hooters, Amore, 1983 on Antenna Records.

    Hooters, Amore, 1983 on Antenna Records.

    Hooters, Amore, 1983 on Antenna Records. If you know The Hooters, it’s likely from “All You Zombies,” or “And We Danced” which were on heavy MTV rotation in the early eighties. This was their debut LP on an independent Philadelphia label – with original bassist Rob Miller, who died before their major label debut Nervous…

  • Leon Redbone, Champagne Charlie, 1978 on Warner Bros.

    Leon Redbone, Champagne Charlie, 1978 on Warner Bros.

    Leon Redbone, Champagne Charlie, 1978 on Warner Bros. Redbone’s third studio LP, with great takes on “Big Bad Bill (Is Sweet William Now),” “Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone,” and “If Soneone Would Only Love Me”

  • Simon and Garfunkel, Bridge Over Troubled Water, 1970 on Columbia.

    Simon and Garfunkel, Bridge Over Troubled Water, 1970 on Columbia.

    Simon and Garfunkel, Bridge Over Troubled Water, 1970 on Columbia. Such a beautiful album end to end, from the opening title track through Song For the Asking. Fifth & final original Simon & Garfunkel studio LP

  • Duke Ellington, In My Solitude, 1969 on Harmony.

    Duke Ellington, In My Solitude, 1969 on Harmony.

    Duke Ellington, In My Solitude, 1969 on Harmony. Compilation on Columbia’s “budget” label from the late 60s

  • Oscar Peterson, Barney Kessel, Herb Ellis, Ray Brown, The Oscar Peterson Trio Set, Jazz at the Philharmonic, reissued 1985 on Verve.

    Oscar Peterson, Barney Kessel, Herb Ellis, Ray Brown, The Oscar Peterson Trio Set, Jazz at the Philharmonic, reissued 1985 on Verve.

    Oscar Peterson, Barney Kessel, Herb Ellis, Ray Brown, The Oscar Peterson Trio Set, Jazz at the Philharmonic, reissued 1985 on Verve. Live at Carnegie Hall in 1952 and 1953 – most of this was previously issued on other JATP releases